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According to the Wall Street Journal, MLB Advanced Media, the online divsion of Major League Baseball, will not sign deals with companies that use spyware to serve ads. The article defines spyware as software that once installed on the user’s machine, reports on the user’s activities so as to determine which ads to serve to the user’s computer.

Artist Thomas Forsythe photographed BARBIE dolls to make an artistic point. Mattel sued him and lost. A District Court judge has now held that the parodic character of the work should have been clear to Mattel, whom he characterized as a ‘sophisticated entity with access to good legal rerpesentation.’ Accordingly, Mattel’s copyright claim was ‘objectively unreasonable,’ and its trademark, trade dress and dilution claims were ‘groundless and unreasonable.’ Defendant was awarded $1,584,089 in attorneys fees and $241,797 in costs.